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bacteriophagy

bacteriophagy noun: the feeding on bacteria.

Noun

bacteriophagy (uncountable)

  1. The feeding on bacteria.

Origin of bacteriophagy

From bacterio- (“bacteria”) + -phagy (“to feed on”).

Questions about bacteriophagy

What does bacteriophagy mean?
Bacteriophagy means the feeding on bacteria.
What part of speech is bacteriophagy?
Bacteriophagy is a noun.

Words near bacteriophagy in the dictionary

  1. bacteriophage
  2. bacteriophages
  3. bacteriophagia
  4. bacteriophagic
  5. bacteriophagous
  6. bacteriophagy
  7. bacteriopheophorbide
  8. bacteriopheophorbides
  9. bacteriopheophytin
  10. bacteriopheophytins
  11. bacteriophilous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bacteriophagy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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